Tuesday, June 03, 2008

The Bad Catholic Girls Models

Besides these 3 girls having slightly different designs and builds, there is another point in the panels I could talk about.The characters interact. They don't just line up all parallel to each other.They move in and out of each other's spaces. They react to each other's movements.

They are all acting independently. When doing this, you have to be careful to still make their different poses add up to a clear overall composition, so it doesn't look chaotic.Even their legs move independently.And they have knees made of both flesh and bone, not just cartoonskin.

As a kid I remember loving that the 3 girls were different, and their separate designs really stood out to me. It always made me mad that no one ever noticed the coloring error where the blonde's and brunette's colors were swapped!

john, these are sooooo awesome!!! very veRY VERY EXPRESSIVE. I LOVE IT.when you mentioned character's interation, I remember when i read japanese comic book, for some reason, even the drawings are not as skillful, I often feel they are more alive than the American ones. Im not sure if that is where the differences are? I grow up with Japanese comics, often feel they are very different from americans but cant really tell why.

My instructor and some other students were talking about the flow of symmetry the other day in class; how somewhere along the line Disney animations began using a lot of symmetrical walk cycles, and movement for all of their characters.

You'd want this particular walk to be very 'frilly', and flowing smooth like a flag, which is why having their knees together in a march would conjure up feelings of a hard march. Probably not that sexy.

The empty speech balloon reminds me of the infernal question: How do you spell the sound of a fart? Is it "pfft", or "brap", or maybe "gdfoynghpx"? This stuff keeps me up at night. How DO you spell it?